In the area of ecological planning, the main methods are map-overlay ecological applicability zoning and “patch-corridor-matrix” model landscape ecological pattern construction. However, the ecological space constructed by the first method is limited in the undevelopable area, the species moving corridors which connects the patches using the second method are uncertain. The most lose of the two methods is the lack of understanding and predicting the ecological process. Pointing to the problem, through reviewing the development history of ecological theory to cognize “function, process and structure”, it attempts to expand the breadth and depth of the evolution process of ecological planning thinking and method. Also, it’s found that ecological planning method must translate from “zoning manage” to “structure control”, which will improve our country’s ecological planning theory and method.